RUSSELL HOWARD RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW ARENA TOUR - TWICE EXTENDED

It was announced today (Wednesday 19th January) that, due to exceptional public demand, RUSSELL HOWARD will extend his 2011 arena tour, Right Here, Right Now further by performing two extra dates at London’s Hammersmith Apollo.

Having already extending his tour by seven additional arena shows in October 2010 at London’s O2, Manchester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow and Cardiff, after selling-out at London’s O2 arena and two dates at Cardiff International Arena, RUSSELL will now perform his brand-new solo show to over 150,000 fans over a total of 21 dates. Tickets for Right Here, Right Now at London’s Hammersmith Apollo are available to order now.

Right Here, Right Now follows the sell-out success of RUSSELL’s 2009 10-date arena tour Big Rooms & Belly Laughs, which saw him perform at some of the largest venues in the UK, including Wembley Arena and the Manchester Evening News Arena. RUSSELL has had three other sell-out tours including the if.comedy nominated Wandering (2006/7), Adventures (2007/8) and Dingledodies (2008/9).

Mock The Week regular, RUSSELL is the writer and star of BBC Three’s most successful entertainment show Russell Howard’s Good News, which will return twice in 2011 with Series 4 in the Spring and Series 5 following in the Autumn. Since Russell Howard’s Good News debuted on 22nd October 2009, ratings have grown from 1.7 million a week to 3.9 million a week in Series 3, with a peak of 1.4 million for a single showing. The show has regularly been number one on BBC iPlayer across all BBC channels. A DVD featuring the best bits of the first series of Russell Howard’s Good News was released by 4DVD on 17th November.

RUSSELL has had two bestselling live stand-up DVDs with Russell Howard Live (2008) and Russell Howard Live - Dingledodies (2009), which have sold over 400,000 copies and dominated the top five of the DVD comedy chart during both years of release.

“He is a huge talent”Dominic Maxwell, The Times

_ “An awesome ability to connect with an audience”James Kettle, The Guardian

_“Russell Howard is packing them in everywhere… he is a stand-up natural.”_Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard